Nicholas Fairclough 

 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- 3-year-old Eric Bell is recovering at Shands Jacksonville with a gunshot wound to the chin.  Police say his mother's boyfriend is responsible, even though he didn't pull the trigger.

Police say 27-year-old Nicholas Fairclough had a handgun and a sawed-off shotgun in a backpack when he came home to Phyllis Street Sunday night.  They say Fairclough placed the backpack on a barstool in the kitchen.  But the toddler accidentally knocked the backpack off the stool, causing one of the guns to fire.

Fairclough, who is already a known criminal, now faces charges of culpable negligence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.  The boy's mother was home at the time of the shooting.  Police say she was in another room doing laundry.  She will not face any criminal charges.